Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:13:32 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: atrn@zeta.org.au Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? Message-ID: <369F692C.C3D452C6@softweyr.com> References: <199901150819.TAA06812@ska.bsn>
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Andy Newman wrote:
>
> > There's definately an eerie connection somewhere.
>
> (Note attempt to move this to chat)
Add a Reply-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org header. ;^)
> I'm another who had an Amiga. Don't know about the rest of you but in
> 1986 (or whenever it was) I couldn't afford a Sun workstation at home
> and the Amiga was about the closest thing to a Unix box I could afford.
> Oh, and it could do graphics & sound better than anything else.
I bought an Atari ST instead; I mostly wanted SOMETHING with a 68K
processor and a graphics screen. Plus, the early Amiga keyboards were
horrid. It wasn't long before I had Minix running on my ST, which
gave me an almost-workstation, with a lot of bang for the buck in
those years.
> I think it's ironic that ten or more years ago we'd be using Unix at
> work and at home people had lots of clunky machines running CP/M or
> MS-DOS or OS/9 or TRS/DOS or whatever. The Amiga and some other systems
> were almost okay. Now it's reversed for many people, they have (full
> source) Unix systems at home and have to use these clunky PCs at work.
> (I'm lucky enough to work on Unix systems 99% of the time).
I have Win95 on a laptop at work; I use it exclusively to run NetXRay.
I have two desktop machines, a SPARCstation 5 and a PII 266 running
FreeBSD. I still prefer the SPARCstation because it has a better
keyboard, but prefer FreeBSD to Slowlaris for everything else. Plus,
the FreeBSD machine is a LOT faster than the SPARC 5. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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